The Atlas of Middle-Earth

Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-Earth is an essential volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the definitive guide to the geography of Middle-earth, from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, including the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated -- nearly one third of the maps are new, and the text is fully revised -- the atlas illuminates the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit , and The Lord of the Rings . Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys of the principal characters day by day --battles, castles, forests, far lands, distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation and population. "Absolutely indispensable... In its scope and coverage it is a masterful work, a fitting monument to the talents and imagination of the cartographer and of the man who invented these lands." -- Mythprint , Mythopoeic Society Karen Wynn Fonstad is a noted cartographer who has her master's degree in geography from the University of Oklahoma and has taught geography at the Uneversity of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. As a master of fantasy worlds, she is the author of The Atlas of Pern, The Atlas of the Dragonlance World, The Atlas of the Land and The Forgotten Realms Atlas . She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and is a member of the City Council. Cover Title Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction THE FIRST AGE THE ELDER DAYS The First Age The Spring of Arda and the Settling of Aman The Awakening of the Elves and the Second Great Battle The Westward Road The Noontide of Valinor and the Return to Endor Beleriand Valinor The Coast and the Pelóri Dwellings Beleriand and the Lands to the North The Northlands of Morgoth The Central Highlands Beleriand Ered Luin The Great March The Flight of the Noldor Realms-Before the Great Defeat Menegroth, the Thousand Caves Nargothrond Thangorodrim andAngband Coming of Men Travels of Beren and Lúthien Travels of Turin and Nienor The Battles of Beleriand The First Battle The Second Battle (Dagor-nuin-Giliath, the Battle-under-Stars) The Third Battle (Dagor Aglareb, the Glorious Battle) The Fourth Battle (Dagor Bragollach, the Battle of Sudden Flame) The Fifth Battle (Nirnaeth Arnoediad, the Battle of Unnumbered Tears) The Great Battle (The War of Wrath) THE SECOND AGE Introduction Refugee Relocation Advent of the DarkYears Númenor Voyages of the Númenóreans The Realms in Exile The Last Alliance THE THIRD AGE Introduction Kingdoms of the Dúnedain T.A. 1050 Arnor Gondor Battles T.A. 1200-1634 The Great Plague T.A. 1636-37 Wainriders and Angmar T.A. 1851-1975 The South Kingdom The North Kingdom Deepening Difficulties T.A. 2000-2940 The Last of Condor's Kings (2000-2050) The Watchful Peace and Its End (2060-2480) The Balchoth and the Rohirrim (2510) The Days of Dearth (2758-2760) Remaining Events Prior to the Battle of Five Armies. (2770-2940) Migrations of Hobbits Migrations of Dwarves REGIONAL MAPS Introduction The Shire Eriador The Weather Hills and the Midgewater Marshes The Barrow-downs and Bree-hill The Shire The Tower Hills and the Hills of Evendim The Blue Mountains Wilderland The Misty Mountains Landscape Morphology Rock Type Rivers and Roads The Brown Lands, the Wold, the Downs, and the Emyn Muil The Brown Lands, the Wold,and the Downs The Emyn Muil The White Mountains Landscape Morphology Rock Type The Lowlands Mordor (and Adjacent Lands) The Adjacent Lands Mordor THE HOBBIT Introduction Bag End to Rivendell Rivendell to the Lonely Mountain The Third Age, Year 2941—42 Over Hill and Under Hill: Goblin-town The Capture Bilbo's Escape Out of the Frying Pan Beorn's Wide Wooden Halls Attercop, Attercop Thranduils Caverns Lake-town Lonely Mountain The Battle of Five Armies THE LORD OF THE RINGS Introduction Hobbiton and Bag End Bag End Hobbiton: Before and After Along the Brandywine Maggot's Farm and the Ferry Crickhollow On the Barrow-downs The Home of Tom Bombadil The Barrow-downs At the Prancing Pony Bree The Prancing Pony Weathertop Rivendell Moria The Mountains of Moria The West-door The Mines Lothlórien Nimrodel and Cerin Amroth Caras Galadon Helm's Deep The Deep The Hornburg Isengard The Ring and Tower Isengard lay in the western part of Nan Curunír, sixteen miles from the mouth of the valley and a mile west of the Isen.4 The two most notable features of Isengard were the outer Ring and the tower of Orthanc. The Ring measured one mile from rim to rim and "stood out from the shelter of the mountain-side,from which it ran and returned again."5 The plain within was somewhat hollowed, forming a shallow basin, in the center of which stood the tower.6Drawings by Tolkien indicated that Orthanc rose high above the rimwall.7 As Orthanc was over five hundred feet high, the rimwall might have been only one hundred feet high, or perhaps less: The Ents leveled it without much difficulty. Orthanc was evidently of a much more resistant rock than the rimwall. Although the tower was fashioned by the builders of Númenor, they merely altered it; for it appeared "not made by craft of Men but riven . . . in the ancient torment of the hills."8 It most closely resembled a volcanic plug or neck such as Shipro The Fortification Edoras Dunharrow Minas Tirith The Hill of Guard The City of Stone The Morannon Henneth Annûn The Refuge The Basin The Path to Cirith Ungol The Tower of Cirith Ungol The Tower The Interior Mount Doom The Mountain The Sammath Naur The Battle of the Hornburg Battles in the North The Battle of the Pelennor Fields The Battle of the Morannon The Battle of Bywater Pathways Bag End to Rivendell Rivendell to Lórien Rauros to Dunharrow Dunharrow to the Morannon The Journey of Frodo and Sam The Road Home The Fourth Age THEMATIC MAPS Introduction Landforms Mountains Hills and Plateaus Plains and Undulating Lowlands Climate Vegetation Forests and Woodlands Grasslands and Wastelands Population The First Age The Second Age The Third Age Languages EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGES Appendix Mountain Chains Inland Water Bodies Rivers Political Decisions Notes Selected References Books Periodicals Interviews Miscellaneous Sources Index of Selected Place Names for The History of Middle-earth Back Cover Introduction The First Age. Introduction Valinor Beleriand and the lands of the north The great march The flight of the Noldor Realms : before the great defeat Menegroth, the thousand caves Nargothrond Gondolin Thangorodrim and Angband Coming of men Travels of Beren and Luthien Travels of Turin and Nienor The battles of Beleriand The First Battle The Second Battle The Third Battle The Fourth Battle The Fifth Battle The Great Battle The Second Age. Introduction Refugee relocation Advent of the dark years Numenor Voyages of the Numenoreans The Realms in Exile The last alliance Kingdoms of the Dunedain (1050) Battles (1200-1634) The Great Plague (1636-37) Wainriders and Angmar (1851-1975) Deepening difficulties (2000-2940) Migrations of Hobbits Migrations of Dwarves Regional maps. Introduction The Shire Eriador Wilderland The Misty Mountains The Brown Lands, the Wold, the Downs, and the Emyn Muil The White Mountains Mordor (and adjacent lands) The Hobbit. Introduction Over Hill and Under Hill : Goblin-town Out of the frying pan Beorn's wide wooden halls Attercop, Attercop Thranduil's Caverns Lake-town Lonely Mountain The Battle of Five Armies The Lord of the Rings. Introduction Hobbiton and Bag End Along the Brandywine On the Barrow-downs At the Prancing Pony Weathertop Rivendell Moria Lothlorien Helm's Deep Isengard Edoras Dunharrow Minas Tirith The Morannon Henneth Annun The path to Cirith Ungol The Tower of Cirith Ungol Mount Doom The Battle of the Hornburg (March 3-4, 3019) Battles in the north (March 11-30, 3019) The Battle of the Pelennor Fields (March 15, 3019) The Battle of the Morannon (March 25, 3019) The Battle of Bywater (November 3, 3019) Pathways Bag End to Rivendell Rivendell to Rauros Rauros to Dunharrow Dunharrow to the Morannon The journey of Frodo and Sam The road home The Fourth Age Thematic maps. Introduction Landforms Climate Vegetation Population Languages Appendix : Tables. Mountain chains Inland water bodies Rivers Political decisions Notes Find your way through every part of Tolkien's great creation from Middle-Earth to the undying lands of the west. Completely revised, Karen Wynn Fonstad's The Atlas of Middle-Earth is an indispensable volume that will enchant all Tolkien fans. Here is the essential guide to the geography of Middle-Earth from its founding in the Elder Days through the Third Age, re-creating the journeys of Bilbo, Frodo, and the Fellowship of the Ring. Authentic and updated -- nearly one third of the maps are new with a fully revised text -- it illuminates the enchanted world created in The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings. Hundreds of two-color maps and diagrams survey the journeys day by day -- battles, castles, forests, far lands, distinctive landforms, climate, vegetation, and population. - Back cover.